57: Chapter 57 Once he regains his human form, he'll definitely start treating her like a creepy uncle again.

"Right! It must be for her new Beast Husband to live in," She Ming guessed.

A Female Beastman's multiple Beast Husbands generally did not live together; they only lived together during meals or when collective activities were required.

"That's great! Tang Ruan has already started looking for a new Beast Husband. That means Hu Che will soon be able to be with the Snake King."

The more She Ming thought about it, the happier he felt for the Snake King. He had been lonely for nearly three hundred years; finally, he would have a companion.

Suddenly, he felt a bit of heat by his feet. Looking down, he saw that the grass at his feet had caught fire at some point and was about to spread to his body.

"Ah!" She Ming hurriedly jumped back two steps.

Yan Qing remained expressionless, turned around, and returned to the cave. It was as if he hadn't been the one to start the fire.

She Ming scratched his head: "Could there be other beastmen in Wan Shou City with a Fire Elemental Ability?"

Tang Ruan simply decorated the cave. She placed the pregnant female snakes into different caves and planted chill-sensing grass in each one. It was that kind of grass that could change its color according to the temperature.

After finishing this, she planted all the remaining chill-sensing grass at the cave entrance. She cleared a small patch of land at the entrance specifically for growing the chill-sensing grass, so that if the grass inside the cave died, she could replace it in time.

While planting, she discovered a plant mixed in with the chill-sensing grass that looked very much like a rose. She took a sniff, and the scent was even sweeter than a rose.

She couldn't help but sniff it again and again, but in the end, she set it aside. There wasn't much suitable land for planting to begin with, so she wouldn't waste space on something useless.

Just as Tang Ruan tossed it aside, a red shadow flashed by. Hu Che appeared out of nowhere, snatched the flower in his mouth, and ran off.

Tang Ruan didn't pay much attention, assuming he also liked the scent of the rose.

By evening, she was aching all over. As she walked near the cave she shared with Hu Che, she suddenly smelled a pleasant rose fragrance.

She looked up and saw the setting sun shining on the small cave entrance she shared with Hu Che. A golden-red little fox, with a fiery red rose in its mouth, was crouching at the entrance, waiting for her.

Both sides of the cave entrance were filled with roses just as brilliantly red as fire. Under the setting sun, it looked as if it had been sprinkled with gold dust.

Hu Che wagged his tail. He walked over and handed the one in his mouth to her.

Tang Ruan crouched down, looking at everything before her in surprise. "Did you plant these?"

Hu Che lifted his head, his face full of pride.

"Thank you, I'll give you an extra chicken leg tonight." Hu Che's little head lifted even higher. Just a chicken leg?

"Oh! She Ming gave me a spirit fruit and said it could help you recover." Tang Ruan took out the spirit fruit.

Hu Che sniffed it, then struck an even more arrogant pose. "Then tell me how you want me to repay you! Or, how about you keep it for now, and when you can speak, you can tell me—"

Tang Ruan's voice stopped abruptly. Hu Che suddenly lifted his upper body and licked her chin.

Tang Ruan: ... By the time Tang Ruan reacted, he had already dropped the rose and scurried back into the cave at lightning speed.

He was playing with her. It must be that... Tang Ruan's heart accelerated slightly. She thought of the youth's stunning smile.

She patted her face. He was just a fox right now; he didn't know anything. Once he regained his human form, he would surely treat her like a weird uncle again.

As time passed, the snakes in the cave hatched one after another. Tang Ruan noted down the color of the chill-sensing grass in the caves where the female snake hatching rate was highest. She planned to conduct further experiments.

After all, this was to be used on the Cubs; she had to experiment repeatedly and succeed before she could tell Yan Qing.

"Tang Ruan! What are you doing here?" She Yan had somehow found her way there, carrying half a roasted animal leg in her hand.

"Sister, how did you get here?" She Yan looked into the cave and saw a group of bright red little snakes. "Why are you raising these things?"

Tang Ruan originally wanted to find an excuse to brush her off, but seeing that She Yan was asking with such a serious expression, she told her about her plan to hatch Female Beastman snakes.

After hearing this, She Yan looked at her with admiration. "Tang Ruan, not only are you a Witch Doctor, but you actually know so much—you're amazing! I've always felt that mating with other races just doesn't work."

"How many places has the Snake King taken the tribe to already? Not a single one has been born. We still have to rely on the females of our own Snake Tribe." She proudly patted her stomach.

"When can we use your method? I've wanted a female Cub for nearly a hundred years."

"You believe in me?" Tang Ruan asked, pleasantly surprised. "Of course. I won't absorb the one in my stomach; I'm counting on you!"

After giving birth to ten Male Beastman Cubs in a row, She Yan had given up. Afterward, whenever she was pregnant, she would absorb the Cub. Although her Beast Husbands were dissatisfied, there was nothing they could do.

Because the dissatisfied Beast Husbands had all been given away by her; anyway, there were plenty of young males who wanted to be her Beast Husbands.

Tang Ruan didn't know how to express her current feelings. That was her child! She was actually willing to let her use it for experiments!

Although beastmen didn't care about their Cubs as much as humans did, she was still very touched. Tang Ruan hugged She Yan.

"Sister, you are my best friend in Wan Shou City!" She Yan felt a bit embarrassed by the hug. "Got it, got it." She patted her back.

"In the future, be a little nicer to my son... Don't be too partial to Hu Che." Tang Ruan: ... How did the boat of friendship capsize so quickly?

She Yan had come today to bring meat to Tang Ruan. "Look at how busy you are, you don't even have time to make food. With Hu Che being in that state... Sigh!" She sighed and secretly watched Tang Ruan's expression.

"He only knows how to hunt, he doesn't even know how to roast meat for you. Look at how well my eldest son roasts meat!" Tang Ruan: The meat she had just put in her mouth suddenly didn't taste good anymore.

Before leaving, Tang Ruan gave She Yan quite a lot of spices for roasting meat. She really didn't have any good feelings for that guy named She Lei, and she didn't want to owe him any favors.

However, over the next few days, She Lei would bring roasted meat over every mealtime. He didn't know how to talk much. He would just watch Tang Ruan busy and follow along to help. She couldn't drive him away.

Once he saw Tang Ruan wasn't busy, he would leave. Before leaving, he would add, "I'll come to see you again tomorrow." Tang Ruan was truly numb. If this went on, the boat of her friendship with She Yan would soon start leaking.

She Lei's friends were also getting anxious. "She Lei, are you capable or not? If not, tell me the location, and I'll go deliver food to the little Female Beastman tomorrow."

"In your dreams! With such a good-looking little Female Beastman, would She Lei give you a chance? If it weren't for her mother accidentally stumbling upon the back mountain, we wouldn't even know the little Female Beastman was staying there alone."

"If you ask me, for this kind of thing, you need to use your brains." The one speaking was a Weasel Beast. She Lei didn't know him. He had come to the Central City today to find friends, and this Weasel Beast was a friend of a friend, just happening to be sitting together.

"Tell us specifically?" She Lei's friend became interested. "You know that my younger brother's Mistress is the most beautiful Female Beastman snake in the Central City, right? But the appearance of our race..." The Weasel Beast pointed to himself.

She Lei's friend laughed out loud. "Indeed, not tall and mighty enough!"

"But my younger brother dared to go for it! After mating, he would hug the female's thigh and cry, 'If you don't want me, I will be punished by the Beast God...'"

She Lei's ears burned as he listened. He imagined himself hugging Tang Ruan's thigh... his throat went dry. He took a sip of water, "This... this isn't good, right!"

"What's not good about it! However, it still depends on the female's personality; you can only try it on soft-hearted ones..."

"By the way!" The Weasel Beast's eyes rolled around. "What is the personality of the little Female Beastman you mentioned?"

"She... she is very kind. She is willing to help people from the Outer City who have nothing. Her Beast Husband is so useless, yet she still treasures him so much. She is also still searching for a Beast Husband who has been missing for a long time. She really is the Female Beastman who cares the most about males that I have ever seen."

The Weasel Beast's eyes rolled around, "That's good..."